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Recently, according to the British " Times " report, BMW Group intends to stop producing MINI electric models at its Oxford factory in the UK and will transfer the production line to China in 2023. Stephanie Worst, head of the BMW MINI brand, said that the Oxford factory was not ready for the electric car and its operating efficiency was not high.
It is reported that the BMW Group's factory in Oxford, UK can produce 40,000 new pure electric MINI cars every year. In addition to preparing to transfer the MINI electric vehicles currently produced in the Oxford factory to China for production, the company's next generation pure electric vehicle model, MINI Aceman, will also be handed over to a joint venture between BMW and China Great Wall Motors.
According to the strategic plan previously released by BMW Group, BMW MINI's last fuel vehicle will be launched in 2025. By 2030, all MINI models will be purely electrified. At that time, the MINI brand will also become the first brand within BMW Group to achieve full electrification.
In September this year, the MINI brand's first pure electric urban crossover concept car - MINI Concept Aceman, has been unveiled in Shanghai. In November last year, the MINI brand under BMW Group announced that MINI will produce and manufacture two pure electric models in China in 2023. It is estimated that by 2027, pure electric vehicles will account for 50% of MINI's total global sales. BMW Group said that the Chinese market is becoming the fastest growing market in the world, and China will become the focus of MINI's global strategy, and MINI pure electric models will be produced domestically in the beam automobile production base.
Editor's summary: On the 13th of this month, Volkswagen of Germany announced an investment of 2.4 billion euros to jointly establish a new company with Chinese intelligent computing platform provider Horizon to focus on technological development in the field of autonomous driving. Regarding the news that BMW moved its MINI electric vehicle production line to China, the market also believes that this is an important step for BMW Group to promote the transformation of its new energy strategy. (Source: Global Network )
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